he said, you're talking to a former secretary of defense. walls are usually built to keep an enemy from invading. this was a wall to keep people who wanted to be free from leaving. it had barbed wire over the top of it. peter robinson, who wrote the tear down this wall speech said he flew other with the military when -- over with the military, and there was raked gravel. and the raked gravel was there so that if footprints were seen there the night before because one of the east german guards had a relative go over, the east german guard would be held responsible. so freedom has many manifestations. reagan said only when people are free to worship, create and build, only when they can decide their destiny and men pit from their own risks, only then do societies become dynamic and prosperous. he talked about the freedom to extract oil and energy. i mean, do you know how much energy would be extracted in america right now by intrup nears -- entrepreneurs if the government just allowed them to do so? right? the freedom to do that. and freedom w